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Subject: Re: Why is my ChessMaster 5000 so strong?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 14:58:00 04/29/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 14:24:55, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On April 29, 2001 at 11:04:44, Tiago Ribeiro wrote:
>
>>I think CM is maybe the best chess engine too! But it is not politically correct
>>to say this here! :)))
>>
>>
>>On April 29, 2001 at 07:44:50, Douglas Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, I was wondering why my CM5000 was so strong, I make it play 8 hours a day
>>>and analyze all games. I have played people that have Hiarcs, CM8000, CM7000 and
>>>Fritz 6, but my CM seems to be too strong for them. Could it be my computer???
>>>I run it on a Pentium 3, Windows 98, 128 MB, 15 GB and 667Mhz.
>>>I have played Fritz6 only online, but the guy had a much better computer than
>>>me, he had 955Mhz etc.
>>>Well..I am sure that you are thinking...What the hell is he talking about?!!!
>>>Ok, here is the question.
>>>I needed you to know all that info because I wanted to know if my CM would be
>>>capable of beating Deep Fritz, Shredder 5.0 or any of those strong programs.
>>>I was wondering if maybe we could get togehter at a site, I mean go to a site
>>>and try them out.
>>>You can contact me at  hamilton@fide.org
>>>This is for anyone that reads this message.
>>>Thankyou..Douglas.
>
>Chessmaster in my opinion is one of the strongest engines without: Big book,
>book learning, engame tables and other minor twists.
>It also benefits greatly from faster processor speed.
>I have played ten games manually 40/120 with 5500 against Fritz 6, Junior 6 and
>Deep Fritz (10 games each) because i was under the impression that it might be
>stronger, but even with the advantage of the faster cpu, at that time T-bird
>1.2ghz and chessbase family on T-bird 900mhz, chessmaster lost all the matches
>allthough narrowly, it is some time ago and i nolonger have the games, but i do
>recall the scores to be something like 6.5-3.5 and 7.5-2.5 and i don't remember
>the last score, but it lost that too.
>
>Regards
>Jonas

Sorry, which CM? I mean is 5500 and 6000 atleast stronger than 5000 (if 8000
isn't)?
S.Taylor



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